. The difference is this—if the pointer of the weighing machine is reading 5 lbs. a human consciousness is in a mysterious way (not yet completely traced) aware of the fact, whereas if the measuring appliance for
reads 5 units no human mind is aware of it. Neither
nor the appliance for measuring
have any interaction with consciousness. Thus the responsibility for the fact that the scheme of the scientific world includes mass but excludes
rests ultimately with the phenomena of consciousness.
Perhaps a better way of expressing this selective influence of mind on the laws of Nature is to say that values are created by the mind. All the “light and shade” in our conception of the world of physics comes in this way from the mind, and cannot be explained without reference to the characteristics of consciousness.